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Chapter 1 What is discourse analysis?

Baker, P. and Ellece, S. (2011), Key Terms in Discourse Analysis. London: Continuum.
This book provides a very useful set of definitions of terms in the area of discourse analysis.
It also provides short biographies of key researchers as well as summaries of key books in
the area of discourse analysis.

Cameron, D. (2001), Working with Spoken Discourse. London: Sage. Chapter 1, What is
discourse and why analyse it?
While the focus of Cameron’s book is on spoken discourse, it covers many issues that are
of equal relevance to the analysis of written discourse. Cameron’s first chapter discusses
meanings of the term ‘discourse’ and goals and purposes in analysing discourse. The later
part of this chapter talks about how social reality is ‘discursively constructed’ as people talk
about things using the ways of speaking (or discourses) that they have access to.

Celce-Murcia, M. and Olshtain, E. (2000), Discourse and Context in Language Teaching.

A Guide for Language Teachers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 1,
Introduction to discourse analysis
Celce-Murcia and Olshtain’s book discusses discourse analysis and its importance for lan-
guage teaching and learning. The chapter includes a framework for the processing and
production of spoken and written discourse, a pedagogical perspective on communicative
competence and an overview of the authors’ discourse approach to language teaching.

Gee, J. and Handford, M. (eds) (2011), The Routledge Handbook to Discourse Analysis.
London: Routledge
This Handbook contains chapters on a wide range of areas including conversation analysis,
genre analysis, corpus-based studies, multimodal discourse analysis and critical discourse

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analysis. Educational and institutional applications of discourse analysis are discussed

along with topics such as identity, power, ethnicity, intercultural communication, cognition
and discourse.

Hall, C. J., Smith, P. H. and Wicaksono, R. (2011), Mapping Applied Linguistics. A Guide for
Students and Practitioners. London: Routledge. Chapter 4, Discourse analysis.
This chapter is a very accessibly written overview of discourse analysis. Topics covered
include linguistic approaches to discourse analysis, social approaches to discourse analysis
and current themes in discourse analysis such as conversation analysis, corpus linguistics,
discursive psychology, multimodality and critical discourse analysis.

Hyland, K. and Paltridge, B. (eds) (2011), Continuum Companion to Discourse Analysis.

London: Continuum.
This set of chapters describes a range of approaches and issues in researching discourse.
Assumptions underlying methods and approaches are discussed as are research techniques
and instruments appropriate to the goal and method of the research. The second part of the
book provides an overview of key areas of discourse studies. In each chapter the authors
include a sample study which illustrates the points they are making and identify resources
for further reading on the particular approach or issue under discussion.

Jackson, H. and Stockwell, P. (2011), An Introduction to the Nature and Functions of Language
(Second edition). London: Continuum. Chapter 3, Analysing texts and discourses,
Chapter 7, Language in use.
Chapter 3 of Jackson and Stockwell’s book is a very accessible introduction to some of the
theoretical notions that have been introduced in this chapter. The chapter also discusses
basic principles of conversation analysis and multimodal discourse analysis, coherence and
cohesion. Chapter 7 of their book discusses pragmatics, politeness and the relationship
between language and ideology.

Jaworski, A. and Coupland, N. (2006), ‘Introduction: perspectives on discourse analysis’,

in A. Jaworski and N. Coupland (eds), The Discourse Reader (Second edition). London:
Routledge, pp. 1–37.
Jaworski and Coupland’s introduction to this second edition of their book provides further
details on a number of topics that have been presented in this chapter. This includes defini-
tions of the term ‘discourse’, traditions in the analysis of discourse, speech act theory and
pragmatics, conversation analysis and critical discourse analysis. Strengths and limitations
of discourse studies are also discussed.

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Riggenbach, H. (1999), Discourse Analysis in the Language Classroom. Volume 1: The Spoken
Language. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Chapter 1, Overview: Discourse
analysis in the language classroom.
Riggenbach’s book provides many practical examples of how discourse analysis can be used
in language learning classrooms. The introductory chapter to her book outlines the theo-
retical background to her book, covering a number of key topics in the analysis of spoken
and written discourse. Riggenbach discusses what discourse analysis means for language
teaching in terms of methodology, materials development and syllabus design.

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